Throwback Thursday: 1983 Laverda RGS1000 for Sale

While many of the 80s bikes we’ve featured recently look relentlessly forward, spending their lives on the bleeding-edge of sportbike design, other manufacturers were necessarily stuck in the past, limited by budgets and working to maximize the potential of existing, sometimes moribund designs like today’s Laverda RGS1000. Laverda had certainly earned its fair share of…

Tour-y Sport – 2004 Ducati ST4S/ABS

Note: likely a private sale, this auction was ended just before post time…  Since the ST’s inception in 1998, the sport touring side of the Ducati line was a lot more sport than touring.  Right from the ST2 the bikes went well and looked better without the bags than with.  2001 saw the 996cc  desmoquattro…

Time-Capsule Space Ship: 1993 BMW K1 for Sale

A flawed motorcycle that nevertheless succeeded in its intended mission, BMW’s radical K1 was tasked with changing public perception of the slightly stodgy brand and, although it didn’t actually sell particularly well, it certainly managed to send the brand off in a new direction. A bit too futuristically-styled, and possibly a bit too ambitious in…

Rare and Practical: 2005 MZ1000S

Most attempts to resurrect a defunct or struggling brand start with high-performance, limited-edition hypersports machines that inevitably get compared to the GSX-R1000, and generally not in a good way. So it was interesting when a revitalized MZ chose not to compete directly with hypersports bikes from Ducati and Aprilia, instead creating a classy gentleman’s express…